A group of eighteen senators from across the political aisle have sent a letter to the Trump administration calling on the President to reject a proposal which would abolish several refugee resettlement programs.
According to Politico, Trump is considering a “virtual shutdown” of refugee admissions in 2020, having already cut refugee admissions by a third this year, down to an all-time low of 30,000.
The letter, which was addressed to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan, urged the United States government to “increase the refugee resettlement cap and to admit as many refugees as possible within that cap.”
The senators noted that “eliminating refugee admittance altogether” was “alarming,” particularly as the world is “facing the ‘highest levels of displacement on record,’” according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
“America has a responsibility to promote compassion and democracy around the world through assistance to vulnerable and displaced people,” the letter added.
The Trump administration’s slashing of these resettlement programs would, in the long-term, “mean that the capacity and the ability of the United States to resettle refugees would be completely decimated,” according to Jen Smyers,…
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